Lets add one less know fact about cricket

[Naheed]

Chris Gayle is the only batsman to hit a six off the first ball of a Test match

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Luke Vivian.

 

[turnstyle]

Surely it's the only sport in the world where the active participants can spend the first couple of days of the event doing nothing but sitting on a balcony eating sandwiches.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Surely it's the only sport in the world where the active participants can spend the first couple of days of the event doing nothing but sitting on a balcony eating sandwiches.

Sumo

 

[Daemon]

There's that stat going around on ig/twitter recently where teams lose 66% of T20 matches when changes are made to the XI from the previous game.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Sohag Gazi is the only bowler to have conceded a six off the first ball of a test match.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Sohag Gazi is the only player to take a hat trick and score a century in the same match.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Cricket was named after it's inventor, the English taxidermist Archibald Cricket. He died at the age of 47 after being gored by a bull he was trying to capture for his next job.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Cricket was named after it's inventor, the English taxidermist Archibald Cricket. He died at the age of 47 after being gored by a bull he was trying to capture for his next job.

Moooooo ?

 

[ankitj]

For a long time India had all partnership records in ODIs from 1st to 5th wickets. I used to love this little fact so much!

 

[Teja.]

For a long time India had all partnership records in ODIs from 1st to 5th wickets. I used to love this little fact so much!

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8 of the top 10 too.

 

[Engle]

Shahid Afridi is the only Test cricketer to obtain a 5-fer in his 1st Test (5/52 vs Aus) and a century in his 2nd Test (141 vs India)
Someone correct me if this has changed

 

[ankitj]

8 of the top 10 too.

And each of them happened in a small period from 1997 to 2001, time when I used to watch with more investment than today and for which I have much better memory than I have for games from couple of years back. Hence it stuck. I remember being very happy that India put up these monster partnership fairly frequently.

 

[sunilz]

Ross Taylor is the only player to play 100 matches in all the 3 formats iirc

 

[ParwazHaiJunoon]

Surely it's the only sport in the world where the active participants can spend the first couple of days of the event doing nothing but sitting on a balcony eating sandwiches.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1371148200640356352

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Richard Illingworth was a good pub quiz question and answer for four years from 1991. He took a wicket with his first ball in Test Cricket and was hit for six with what looked like it would be his last ball. But then four years later he was inexplicably recalled for a handful of Tests and ruined it.

 

[GIMH]

Paul Collingwood took a wicket with his last ball in Test Cricket.

No idea how rare that is but it's still a fact.

 

[honestbharani]

Paul Collingwood took a wicket with his last ball in Test Cricket.

No idea how rare that is but it's still a fact.

So did Murali... and Kapil?? I think one of McWarne would have got the last wicket in that 2007 Ashes too.

 

[GIMH]

So did Murali... and Kapil?? I think one of McWarne would have got the last wicket in that 2007 Ashes too.

Yeah I figured quite a lot would have done. But it seems more interesting for Collingwood given he took about 7 wickets @328 in Tests.

 

[honestbharani]

Yeah I figured quite a lot would have done. But it seems more interesting for Collingwood given he took about 7 wickets @328 in Tests.

Yeah, under rated cricketer, Colly. Especially under rated as a fielder.